Crazy hen export question...

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I've got an Iranian friend who has fallen in love with the idea of keeping hens after spending time with mine. And she's particularly keen on some breeds that are common here but unobtainable in Iran. She's especially keen on getting silkies and possibly cream legbars.

Import to Iran is going to require some paperwork, and she has asked me for info. And I'm completely stumped. She's been asked for chicken birth certificate (new one on me!), letter from 'UK veterinary organisation' and a vaccination card.

I am completely at a loss to know what to suggest!

Any advice?

Cheers,

Cab.
 
Presume the birth certificate is to record the parents breed and confirm it is not a hybrid. There is something similar on our export paperwork. The UK vet will be an export vet confirming the birds condition and there may be some testing required. If they have not been vaccinated Iran may require that they are, but against what I don't know? For export to France it was necessary that they were NOT vaccinated, presumably because they are then potential carriers.

Exporting our 28 cost over £25 a bird, just for the vet fees, if I remember correctly. It gets more expensive in smaller numbers Cab.
 
Cheers Chris!

Export vet... I'll suggest that if she can find such a person then that might be a good source of the other advice she needs - and I'll tell her to enquire from Iranian end what other details are required re. vaccination.

Would be easier to get hens over there I told her, but she's got her heart set on the breeds you can get here but not there.
 
Problem moving breeds to a different environment is them coping with it Cab. All ours moulted heavily at exactly the same time this year, with just a few running late. Not something we have seen in the UK before. They struggle here with the swings in temperature. It was wet, windy and about 4 degrees for two weeks in November and then went to 20 degrees (32in the sun) immediately for a week. It can swing like that from one day to the next here and even one hour to the next, because we are at the junction of three weather systems. The birds are coping with it at the moment, but I wonder what will happen in Summer when it hits 35 in the shade? How will UK bred birds fare in Iran?
 
Its up in Northern Iran - and apparently there are a lot of hens that we believe to be leghorns there. So your're right, acclimatising might be hard - but I have high hopes she'll do okay. Climate there not too bad as far as I can tell.
 
Hi Cab. Leghorns are a Mediterranean breed and their large comb loses the heat. Conversely they can be problematic at below zero temperatures -well ours are anyway. Cream Legbars are a Leghorn derivative, so they should be OK, but Silkies -well that's not a question for me as I've never had any.
 
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